THE monthly Gourmet Evenings at the Northern Quarter Restaurant Bar revel in their own culinary and geographical ambition and that’s certainly true of the latest, A Summer In The Rhone. It’s a five course dinner ...
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Magnificent seven street food traders announced for B.Eat St July 15 launch
JULY 15. Put it in your diary as the day that moribund Deansgate Mews is magicked into B.EAT Street – an alternative food, booze and art universe, complete with Godzilla murals and a seven metre ...
Wok on! Zouk aim to repeat last year's Glastonbury triumph
MUSE, Adele and Coldplay all headline the Pyramid Stage menu at this year’s Glastonbury Festival running from this Wednesday, June 22 to Sunday, June 26. With 135,000 folk due to brave the inevitable mud the ...
First look at Grape to Grain – impressive new Prestwich hang-out
TOM Sneesby and Joannes Hubertus van Goethem sound like characters out of a Patricia Highsmith noir novel. In person they are as engaging as their new bar/bottle shop, Grape to Grain, along Prestwich’s hottest strip. ...
Two thirds of IndyManBeerCon tickets snapped up inside 48 hours
HOT cakes never sold out as fast as IndyManBeerCon hot places. The precious tickets for this autumn’s 2016 craft beer gathering only went on sale at 9pm on Wednesday, June 15, but already the Friday ...
Stepping out of a tall shadow – Adam Reid, head chef at The French
IT’s easy to slip into typecasting. So Simon Rogan is the Sorcerer and Adam Reid his apprentice in the creative cauldron that is The French’s kitchen. One casts the spells, the other copies his master ...
Lunya’s summer menu washed down with a taste of sunshine
SPANISH vermouth the next big fling? Maybe – on the evidence of a palate cleansing Casa Mariol vermut from Barcelona at the launch of Lunya’s summer menu. Gin, a relationship consummated big time in the ...
Requiem for city centre restaurants as newcomer Quill is written off
THE lights are going out all over Manchester. That’s a huge exaggeration but it has been a wobbly week with a spate of restaurant closures in Manchester city centre culminating in the demise of Quill ...
Peaking quite soon – 'Modern British' eaterie Grafene to launch in July
GRAFENE, the restaurant named after the revolutionary material, is on course to open this July in the former Brasserie Blanc premises that have stood empty for an amazing seven years. Many have eyed the corner ...
Sweet surrender! Lowry afternoon tea with new head pastry chef Ririn
NOT everyone at Taste of Manchester is up to their arms in flour at the drop of a wooden spoon or has come through a soggy bottom moment. Cynically we doubt if all 14 million ...